Party of Two: a contemporary political romance

By Christian Oesterling

"Let's be honest," Paxton says in a gruff, sitting forward on his perch on one end of the Enfield. "Margery doesn't have a personality. She's relying on her policies to speak for her. Now, I'm not saying we don't have good policies, Christine," he corrects himself when he sees her raised eyebrow. "I'm just saying that voters are too lazy to do their own research and will let a candidate's charisma win them over. And you have charisma by the bucket-load.""We're going to focus on policies too," Linette assures her, resting her hand on Christine's tense left shoulder. "But it's election time and we need to worry a lot more about politicking than worrying about legislation. We can figure that out once we have a mandate." Christine has to restrain another sigh of frustration from escaping. She got into the office that morning ready and inspired to be reasonable and dialogic. Instead she'd been met with petulance. They've been at this since she'd sat down with the steaming mug of coffee and the pain au chocolat Shelley had handed her as she walked through her office door that morning. Christine had again pulled her desk chair to sit on one side of the coffee table opposite Paxton on the couch to have this conversation, hoping that this time the vibe and the outcome will be considerably different to yesterday's. And yet Shelley is on her knees on the short end of the coffee table, hunched over her laptop, toggling between Paxton's PowerPoint and the one that Christine had handed her on a USB stick in exchange for the pastry, trying to make both presentable for party headquarters as she'd been given conflicting instructions by Paxton and Christine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1670710408
• ISBN13: 9781670710406
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"